Geoengineering Climate - Geoingeniería del Clima. Note: "academic arguments against research into GE have been erroneously premised on the possibility of future deployment when in truth this deployment already happened, even if unintended." OE 4/2013
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

re. Global warming affects crop yields, but it's the water not the heat

Wow!

Out Just today March 4, 2013 an eye opening study titled Global warming affects crop yields, but it's the water not the heat strengthens tremendously the arguments against Climate Geoengineering by ways of Solar Radiation Management (SRM). (SRM induces droughts)

Update:On the following statement below: I think that I need to make a clarification. I think there is a difference between the need for studies (which could shed light on the effects of ongoing anthropogenic sulfur emissions) versus the active promotion for the implementation of such technologies as SRM. OE (Aug. 11 2014)

Not that it will matter... as there have been many previous studies that factually, ethically and in scientific terms argue against this type of reckless Geoengineering; this behavior begs the question: Are some of the powerful people promoting these types of schemes cut from the same cloth as those who for a long time denied, disregarded and distorted the facts about climate change?

“"One
would expect that having green leaves for a longer period of time would lead to
more photosynthesis and, as a result, more carbon available for wood growth
every year," said Edward Brzostek, a postdoctoral fellow in the IU College
of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology and first author on one of the
papers. "What we find is the exact opposite: Tree growth is declining due
to growth ending earlier and earlier each year because the site has been
getting drier and drier each year."”

Much of the U.S. West is suffering through a drought of historic proportions. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s weekly drought monitor reported that as of July 30, more than 40 percent of the continental U.S. was in a moderate or worse drought, and more than 30 percent was in a severe or worse drought. These numbers are improved compared with earlier in 2013 and 2012, as flooding rains have drenched the Northern Plains and Midwest. Meanwhile, drought has continued to expand in the Southwest, where dry conditions have fueled devastating wildfires.More...

Dec. 5,
2013 — Reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the planet's surface by
geoengineering may not undo climate change after all. Two German researchers
used a simple energy balance analysis to explain how Earth's water cycle
responds differently to heating by sunlight than it does to warming due to a
stronger atmospheric greenhouse effect. Further, they show that this difference
implies that reflecting sunlight to reduce temperatures may have unwanted
effects on Earth's rainfall patterns.